If you are able,
Save for them a place inside of you
And save one backward glance
When you are leaving, for the places the can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them
Though you may
Or may not have always
Take what they have left
And what they taught you with their dieing
And keep it with your own
And in that time
When men decide and feel safe
To call the war insane
Take one moment to embrace
Those gentle heroes
You left behind
Major Michael Davis O'Donnel
1 January 1970
Dak To
Vietnam
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